Vanessa Poulson

The statutory requirements of the Home Energy Rebates program (HER) under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contain a crucial provision: Homeowners receiving rebates must also obtain a third-party certification detailing the home improvements made.
What might at first glance seem like a minor administrative requirement has significant implications for one of the IRA’s primary goals — creating a more energy-efficient and higher-value housing market at scale — otherwise known as market transfor...

Elevate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works nationally and is headquartered in Chicago. Elevate seeks to create a just and equitable world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, cooling, power, and water in their homes and communities — prioritizing frontline communities.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) rebate programs present an opportunity to help homeowners implement energy-efficient upgrades and subseq...

Paul is the Founder & CEO of Givewith where he's transforming commerce into an engine for positive social change.
We’re already witnessing the fallout of Covid-19 in the strains on our healthcare systems, the widening socioeconomic divides and the increased barriers to basic necessities, including food, shelter and education. This, coupled with the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation, is forcing Americans to confront systemic issues of racism, inequality and injustice, giving rise t...

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We know you love using BeFunky’s Artsy Effects to transform your photos into works of art. Now, there are all-new effects to embrace your inner VanGogh or Seurat, no painting required.
We’re happy to introduce the next segment of our A.I. Series, expanded Artsy Effects in the Photo Editor. These new effects use a technique called Style Transfer, where we mimic your favorite art styles and apply them to your photos. Using powerful artificial intelligence, turn your photos into art with just on...

I’ve always had somewhat of a fascination with the Roman city of Pompeii. I remember learning about it for the first time back in first or second grade and wanting so badly to understand how it was that a city could be entirely destroyed and forgotten about and then reborn through modern science, technology, and the ability to find something beautiful in a place where tragedy had struck.

It’s hard to imagine something like Pompeii being anything more than a tragedy. Thousands of people lost t...

Hot take, not all copy is made equal, especially in a modern world of social media. With the rise in internet culture, a new sub-genre (if I may) of copywriting has sprung from the likes of Instagram and YouTube: influencer copy.
While we’ve covered this topic before, if you’re unaware what an influencer is, here’s the rundown. Influencers are people on social media that have a significant following of people. This following can range a thousand people to well over 1 million+ followers. They ...

Michigan-based sock brand boldSOCKS truly lives up to their namesake of creating one-of-a-kind, standout socks. While they set out eight years ago with the goal of creating a retail store with the boldest socks from the boldest sock brands they could find, their business quickly evolved once the sock market became oversaturated with cheaply made designs. They launched their own brand in 2014, Statement Sockwear, to combat the competition with custom designs that are ethically made and sold wi...

It all started with a 1968 bus, repurposed into a mobile coffee bar with a two-burner camp stove for pan-roasting coffee. Uncle Leroy’s Coffee, established in 2015, is the brainchild of a group of coffee enthusiasts that wanted to bring quality, micro-brewed coffee all around the state of Alaska. Roasting beans on the road in small batches, they set out to deliver quality coffee with a bit of culture that couldn’t be found in a traditional coffee shop.
“We mainly traveled to Anchorage area fa...

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